outwork

present singular third person outworks · participle present outworking · participle past outworked · past outworked

1. transitiveTo work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).

   A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.

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   And I am one of those people who is indefatigable, in the true sense that I beg someone to find someone who can outwork me.

   2009, Bill Boggs, Got What It Takes?

2. obsoleterareTo work out to a finish; to complete.

   For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

plural outworks

1. countablearchitectureA minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

   Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.

2. countableuncountableAgricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

   Synonyms: fieldwork